Illegal Immigrants

[the carlos]

so, now we're back on comparing this to the plight of the american indians? awesome.

Ha.

[bjorn_skurj]

Aurora borealis

The icy sky at night

Paddles cut the water

In a long and hurried flight

From the white man

to the fields of green

And the homeland

we've never seen.

 

They killed us in our tepee

And they cut our women down

They might have left some babies

Cryin' on the ground

But the firesticks

and the wagons come

And the night falls

on the setting sun.

 

They massacred the buffalo

Kitty corner from the bank

The taxis run across my feet

And my eyes have turned to blanks

In my little box

at the top of the stairs

With my Indian rug

and a pipe to share.

 

I wish a was a trapper

I would give thousand pelts

To sleep with Pocahontas

And find out how she felt

In the mornin'

on the fields of green

In the homeland

we've never seen.

 

And maybe Marlon Brando

Will be there by the fire

We'll sit and talk of Hollywood

And the good things there for hire

And the Astrodome

and the first tepee

Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me

Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me

Pocahontas.

[ikol]

Sweet. Like 1/64 of me is a victim of the other 63/64.

[a.miller]

Sweet. Like 1/64 of me is a victim of the other 63/64.

Internal struggle.

[EL the Famous]

i'll just jump ahead and throw hitler into the mix:

 

[bjorn_skurj]

Sweet. Like 1/64 of me is a victim of the other 63/64.

Thick cloud - steam rising - hissing stone on sweat lodge fire

Around me - buffalo robe - sage in bundle - run on skin

Outside - cold air - stand, wait for rising sun

Red paint - eagle feathers - coyote calling - it has begun

Something moving in - I taste it in my mouth and in my heart

It feels like dying - slow - letting go of life

 

Medicine man lead me up though town - Indian ground -

so far down

Cut up land - each house - a pool - kids wearing water

wings - drink in cool

Follow dry river bed - watch Scout and Guides make

pow-wow signs

Past Geronimo's disco - Sit 'n' Bull steakhouse - white

men dream

A rattle in the old man's sack - look at mountain top -

keep climbing up

Way above us the desert snow - white wind blow

 

I hold the line - the line of strength that pulls me through

the fear

San Jacinto - I hold the line

San Jacinto - the poison bite and darkness take my sight -

I hold the line

And the tears roll down my swollen cheek - think I'm losing

it - getting weaker

I hold the line - I hold the line

San Jacinto - yellow eagle flies down from the sun -

from the sun

 

We will walk - on the land

We will breathe - of the air

We will drink - from the stream

We will live - hold the line

[JUDE]

There I was, back in the wild again

And I felt right at home where I belong

I had that feelin' comin' over me again

Just like it happened so many times before

 

The spirit of the woods is like an old good friend

It makes me feel warm and good inside

I knew his name and it was good to see him again

'Cuz in the wind he's still alive

 

Oh, Fred Bear, walk with me down the trails again

Take me back, back where I belong

Oh, Fred Bear, I'm glad to have you at my side, my friend

And I'll join you in the big hunt before too long

Before too long

 

It was kinda dark, another misty dusk

And it came from a tangle down below

I tried to remember everything he taught me so well

I had to decide which way to go

 

Was I alone or in a hunter's dream?

'Cuz the moment of truth was here and now

I felt his touch, I felt his guiding hand

The buck was mine, forevermore

 

Because of Fred Bear

I'll walk down these trails again

Take me back where I belong

Oh, Fred Bear, I'm glad to have you at my side my friend

And I'll join you in the big hunt before too long

We're not alone when we're in the great outdoors

We got his spirit, we've got his soul

He will guide our steps, he'll guide our arrows home

The restless spirit forever roams

 

Fred Bear, walk with me down the trails again

Take me back, back where I belong

Oh, Fred Bear, I'm glad to have you at my side, my friend

And I'll join you on the big hunt before too long

 

Oh, Fred Bear, walk with me down the trails again

Take me back, back where I belong

Oh, Fred Bear, I'm glad to have you at my side, my friend

And I'll join you in the big hunt before too long

 

In the wind he's still alive

In the wind he's still alive

In the wind he's still alive

In the wind he's still alive

In the wind, I hear, I hear Fred Bear

 

(I hear ya Fred,

Talk to me,

yea ,

its all right

lets go hunting baby

Say Fred, you go up on that ridge

And I'll go down in the swamp

We'll get that buck)

 

(Fred)

(If some of our teenage thrill seeker really want to go out and get a thrill.

Let them go up into the north west and let them tangle with a Grizzly bear

or Polar bear or brown bear and get that effect that will cleanse the soul

[EL the Famous]

okay...'Cherokee'.

[bjorn_skurj]

okay...'Cherokee'.

ooo. Forgot about that one.

[Guest Jules]

I think it's funny to hear some people say our economy could not handle the absence of illegals in the work place. I believe we would be surprised.

It depends on the location, but I think you're very wrong.

 

that's terrible. the police should have to take them into custody and hand them off to the INS.

How would the police go about determining if they are illegal? That is not their job. These people all have fake Alien Registration cards, and sometimes pretty good ones.

[dannygutters]

"I once met a man in Wooster MA, in a diner. This man had been holding his union card for 26 years. We were watching the television news showing footage of Cezar Chavez leading the organizing out there in sandiego. He remarked to me, damn wetbacks we should send them all back, taking jobs from Americans and so forth. And I could have gotten mad, but then I thought, what was this man's education, his work experience, his upbringing, what had he been told by his own union who had given him some tools to understand what was happening on that TV. If that man had had a clear and sincere picture of who he was and where he had come from he would have been a heckuva lot angrier, and he would have known who to be angry at too, I can tell you that...a long memory is the most radical idea in America today"

 

 

somebody, from my IWW benifit tape Holstiens bar Chicago 1980-something, talking about why we sing and remember folk songs.

[EL the Famous]

seriously...my finger is on the mouse to click 'order Europe - Cherokee' on iTunes...somebody stop me.

[bjorn_skurj]

[Atticus]

 

that may be the loudest I've laughed out loud at the office since the swear jar

[bjorn_skurj]

"the Iraq"

[Sir Stewart]

Did she win it all?

[bobbob1313]

as long as suzie and johnnie teenager are so involved in seventeen million clubs and school sports teams (and NOT working), no one will do the traditional afterschool (i.e. shitjob) work. we're soft to an unforgivable degree. and i'm drunk. goodnight.

 

What?

[bjorn_skurj]

Picking crops is the kind of job nobody does unless they HAVE to.

[bobbob1313]

Picking crops is the kind of job nobody does unless they HAVE to.

 

God damned 13 year olds need to stop playing soccer and get to picking strawberries, god damn it.

[EL the Famous]

Picking crops is the kind of job nobody does unless they HAVE to.

 

or unless they are a teenager in rural Illinois, want $ and not old enough to work at dairy queen.

[anodyne]

or unless they are a teenager in rural Illinois, want $ and not old enough to work at dairy queen.

 

 

me and you both, man! change IL to OH and the crop to green beans and we're there.

[bjorn_skurj]

Man, am I glad I grew up in suburbia.

[Analogman]

I saw a deal on the news the other day about how farmers out west are screwed because of the lack of immigrants - and the high cost/red tape involved on participating in the guest worker program.

[Edie]

i'll just jump ahead and throw hitler into the mix:

 

 

Thank you ELF -- I just laughed my ass off.

[squarewave]

I had a similar situation....

 

We parked one of the cars in front of our house.

We live on a very low traffic street, but some dumbshits drove their car right into it anyway.

 

I looked out immediately, and the person who got out of the driver's door was a young Mexican woman.

An older Mexican woman got out of the passenger side and walked around. They started the car but I ran out and stepped in front of the car and told them (politely) not to move the car and to shut it off right now.

 

They tried to tell the cops that the older woman was driving.

 

They had a weird little beat up tow truck with logos and lettering in Spanish pick up the car. Not only were the driver and passenger not arrested (or even ticketed that I could see), the cops drove them home...

We had to file the claim under the uninsured motorist portion of out insurance, and they went after them.

 

I don't think they got anything... The apartments are like revolving doors, and there is not exactly a forwarding address.

 

Regardless of whether these people are legally or not, the fact that they bear such little responsibility for their actions pisses me off....

Get them IDs, and make them pay for what they do.